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"BOWIE-KNIFE POTTER" DYING.; A STORY OF THE OLD DUELING DAYS CONNECTED WITH HIS NAME.

It was announced recently, in dispatches from Milwaukee, that the Hon. John F. Potter, an ex-member of Congress from Wisconsin, and at one time widely known in State and national affairs, was dying in the poor shelter afforded by a comfortless farm-house at Mukwanago.

December 26, 1882

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